GDC Next aims to highlight the future of video game development, with session tracks organized around 'Next Generation Game Platforms', 'Free To Play & New Business Models', and 'Smartphone & Tablet Games', as well as cloud and indie game tracks. The brand new App Developers Conference (ADC) offers professionals a venue to share their knowledge about building, designing, marketing, and selling their apps.

GDC Next's focus on the future of games will also include a series of lectures on ten innovative, yet-to-debut games called the GDC Next 10. This year's GDC Next 10 inductees are Daniel Benmergui's Storyteller, Hidetaka "SWERY" Suehiro's D4, Capy Games's Super T.I.M.E. Force, Team Dakota's Project Spark, Double Fine's Broken Age, The Odd Gentlemen's Wayward Manor, HumaNature Studios's Doki-Doki Universe, Obsidian's Project Eternity, Dynamighty's CounterSpy, and Grand Cru's Supernauts.

Additionally, the spirit of GDC Online lives on in talks on F2P lessons from Neverwinter and Diner Dash, cloud gaming and crowdfunding with Star Citizen, microtransactions and subscriptions from Playdom, and new user experience and retention from KIXEYE and Workshop Entertainment.

The Expo Floor will feature exhibits from Google, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Intel, Qualcomm, Pandora, Technical Illusions, and other major game and app industry players. The Videogame History Museum will also be presenting a special exhibit called the Museum of Portable Devices, showing the Newton, early Palm products, as well as presenting arcade machines and its classic '80s 'living room' setup.

Anyone with a GDC Next, ADC, or Expo Pass will be able to attend the sponsored sessions by GREE, Tencent, Intel, Google, and many others at the GDC Next and ADC Expo Floor theater, too.

Be sure to check out the GDC Next Session Scheduler to see the other announced talks and begin your planning.